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@billybinion All the more reason to not allow any further H1b from these countries.

The responses to this are a good reminder that a lot of anti-immigrant keyboard warriors have no idea what the law says. “He had 20 years to become a citizen!” No. Thanks to country of origin caps, the wait time for Indians can be over *100 years*—just to get a green card. Many die waiting in line. We tell people seeking the American Dream to come here “the right way,” and then we punish them for doing so.

@ASFleischman Because the law itself will be biased depending on who has majority to pass it.

Both parties gerrymander whenever possible. This is bad. Neither party will ever unilaterally disarm. That is predictable. So why not just call a truce and pass a law to restrict it everywhere?

@CatWomaniya Meme mocking the accuser and ridiculousness of the allegations. The men doing this are heroes essentially saving the accused from the damage of the false accusations by demeaning the accusations themselves.

Notice how men made ai memes on this case instead of feeling outraged and aren’t crying about how false allegations ruin lives?

@AI_EmeraldApple Daily mail should be sued out of existence.

When this story blew up yesterday, I didn't comment on it because it sounded completely fabricated. Lorna Hajdini supposedly said, "I bet your little Asian fish head wife doesn't have these cannons." That slang of "fish head" is apparently something that is niche within indian racial slur vernacular, and the allegations were completely fake. Also, look at this weird-looking person, who is evidently known to be socially awkward at the office. Does anyone think even the most batshit woman would go so crazy for a "man" that looks like that? What a moron... Chirayu Rana should face the full force of the law and be prosecuted for it. Meanwhile, Lorna Hajdini’s team is already signaling they’re preparing a defamation countersuit, and court sanctions or bar complaints are very much on the table. I don't care who the false accuser is, man or woman; they should face the full force of the law.

I mean this sincerely: Chirayu Rana, who fabricated the entire thing, deserves life in prison. Someone who is willing to ruin another’s life in the most egregious and damaging way has no place in polite society. How awful for this lady and her family.

@HistoryBoomer India and Malaysia certainly are feminist. Let's be honest, though, TFR is a measure of access to birth control.

I did not realize that Egypt, India, and Malaysia were hard into "late-stage feminism." Birth rates are declining everywhere.

@mattyglesias Obama's cash for clunkers program alone has done more economic damage than both Bush's combined.... and that's saying something.

The actual derangement is the people who don’t realize Obama is broadly popular, well-liked, and remembered fondly and was extremely popular on the day he left office as well. Not a perfect president or a flawless administration but better than all the other ones.

@AndyMasley Mathematically, though, solar and wind don't return on investment for lower than $0.3/kWh without subsidy so it's also true.

Hard not to think that anyone even semi-numerate who says they can't immediately spot the issues with this graph is just pretending not to know

@PlankReturns You should press the red button because we have an over population problem and this selects for logical over emotional people. Natural responses have tried to correct overpopulation (subconscious birth rate reduction, pandemics) and yet we still keep trudging on as a species.

Lowest tier: if I press the red button I live Midwit tier: I have to press the blue button because I cannot read Above average tier: I will press red because that’s the smart thing to do Smart tier: I will press the blue button because I understand the problem but I am also smart enough to realize not enough people understand the problem. By pressing the blue button and siding with the midwits, I can save them from their own stupidity. Genius tier: I will press the red button. I will survive and hopefully all the morons will die.

@interbellica That's an interesting reframing of "the US military has no peers"

The U.S. has never defeated a peer adversary without significant assistance. Meanwhile, the average French conflict for several decades (they won):

A Harvard Business Review finding showed that mandatory race training in workplaces produced higher levels of racism in the end, similar to the white bear suppression effect. We were so close to a colorblind society… then all the crazies ruined it with performative politics.

@opsylojay1 Is $8,000 a lot in Nigeria?

My uncle died. I didn't go to the funeral. We weren't close.Three days later I get an email from his lawyer. Subject: "You're in the will." Attachment: 1 PDF. I didn't open it for a week. 1 assumed debt. Or a weird collection of spoons. Finally clicked it. He left me $8,000. And a note. "This is for therapy. You're going to need it when you figure out why you're the only one I gave money to." Called my mom. "Why did uncle hate everyone?" She goes quiet. "He didn't hate us." "He hated what we did to your sister." My sister died at 12. I was 8. They told me car accident. It wasn't. It was my dad. Drunk. He was driving.

@Tyre_94 This is one of those alternative history things that has about as much validity as framing slavery as whites generously housing and feeding blacks.

Everything I studied about Reconstruction in college really made me lose faith in America, as a project. Southern Black Republicans took the poor, landless Southern white peasantry and gave them agency, schools, etc., and they just repaid them with Jim Crow.

@TomChivers @nick66g "Conservatives (iirc) are just as likely to report being anxious/unhappy/etc" This statement is not correct.

@nick66g I have seen this sort of thing before, and I think it's heavily confounded by liberals being more willing to use psychiatric terms and seek out diagnosis/treatment. Conservatives (iirc) are just as likely to report being anxious/unhappy/etc, just not to call it "mental illness"

This seems really bad and I don't know what to do about it: not so much the differences in political attitudes, that's fine, but there's a strong gender divide in belief on straightforward factual questions like "is nuclear energy low-carbon?" yougov.com/en-gb/articles…

@TomChivers This is more of a way women think vs men (generally). They're much more biased to normative conformity and the group position is anti nuclear and anti carbon, so nuclear = carbon in their minds even if they got an A in chemistry. Academics are firewalled from politics for them.

@danpfeiffer @marcorubio When did we take on Zambia as a territory?

Great job @marcorubio Hope you’re proud of yourself

@avidseries Yeah those are the same people who will say (xyz liberal talking point) is not political. They can't even comprehend that their position is controversial. Voting patterns are more telling. Watch what they do, not what they say.

In the largest survey ever conducted on the ideological orientation of US teachers, only 30% described themselves as "liberal". A plurality (43%) identified as "moderate".

occasional reminder that the reason women took on heavy duty, necessary, dirty jobs during ww2 is that the men temporarily moved to heavier dutier, necessarier, dirtier jobs.

If you grew up in a red state, did every fucking public school after 5th grade have something called a "Gay-Straight Alliance" (GSA) that was basically an after school club where band kids went to get molested Or was that just a blue state thing

Finding out how few people actually commit violent crimes has been sort of whitepilling and has made me far less sympathetic to criminals and “progressive” attempts to reform them. Society would become so much better overnight if this 1% were executed or exiled, it’s profoundly unfair that the rest of us have to be enslaved to them.